Director Hal Needham made some of the most popular action comedies of the 1970s, and his frequent collaborations with Burt Reynolds were often his best films. Needham started his Hollywood career as a stunt actor, and that keen eye for action eventually landed him a spot in the director's chair.
Cannonball Run II By 1984, the Reynolds-Needham partnership had run its course, and Cannonball Run II was a forced exercise in futility. Almost indistinct from the original film, the plot saw J.J. McClure enter a cross-country race in hopes of winning the $1 million prize. Though the familiar cast of the original returned en masse, it wasn't enough to make up for the bland unoriginality of the movie.
Stroker Ace The best movies about auto racing weren't usually critical darlings, and 1983's Stroker Ace found its audience after the fact. The plot concerned the titular character , a stock car driver who was forced to work his way back up through the ranks after losing his car's corporate sponsor. Reynold's take on Stroker Ace saw him at his usual best, and the on-track action was an appropriately pulse-pounding representation of stock car racing.
Nevertheless, the financial success of the movie was a testament to its entertainment value, and the many stars that made up the cast each represented clever characters. Outside of Reynolds' J.J. McClure, actors like Dom DeLuise and Roger Moore helped round out the roster, and the movie was stuffed to the point that it never got dull.
Why don't you just rank turds from your bowel movements this week instead. None of Hal Needham's movies were any good.
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